Friday, November 5, 2010

Douglas Engelbart - Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)

- Influential on development of computer interfaces

- Established many critical components of modern PCs: mouse, window, word processor, graphic/text displays, programming editors, hyperlink.

- Recognized for these ideas but his motivation is not as widely known.

- Engineer with larger goals: wanted to help further mankind (augment human intellect)

- Problem solver, saw problems looming for humans and wanted to enhance ability to deal with them.

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